"what native application can I use in mac os 10 to do text editing with syntax highlighting (which has optionally an intergrated terminal)?I have a programming competition to go to and,.. well... they putting us on mac os 10"

"what native application can I use in mac os 10 to do text editing with syntax highlighting (which has optionally an intergrated terminal)?I have a programming competition to go to and,.. well... they putting us on mac os 10"

he's not allowed to install extra software.

Terminal.app-vim and emacs. I don't know what else he could possibly need.

I hope some one can point me in the right direction. I received a PSP as a gift. I am trying to hook it up to my wireless router (linksys wrt54g) but I keep getting "A connection error has occurred. The attempt to obtain the IP address timed out." error. I have googled this, but nothing I try does any good. Thanks.

Snug Tight:I hope some one can point me in the right direction. I received a PSP as a gift. I am trying to hook it up to my wireless router (linksys wrt54g) but I keep getting "A connection error has occurred. The attempt to obtain the IP address timed out." error. I have googled this, but nothing I try does any good. Thanks.

are you sure you've got the settings right?

check the channel and security options.

you can probably check the router's log for information on why it won't let the psp connect

Snug Tight:I hope some one can point me in the right direction. I received a PSP as a gift. I am trying to hook it up to my wireless router (linksys wrt54g) but I keep getting "A connection error has occurred. The attempt to obtain the IP address timed out." error. I have googled this, but nothing I try does any good. Thanks.

what kind of encryption (if any) do you have on the router? when i tried hooking my psp up to my netgear router with WEP encryption, i had to change it from shared key to open (or maybe it was the other way around, i'm not at home) before my psp could connect.

I think I have the settings correct. It should be simple to set up. I have tried a few different ways, but still get the same error. I will check out the router log. Thanks.

AesopRock_00

I am using WEP. I will play around with different encryptions it in the next few days.

I guess I really don't need to get on line with it at home. I just thought it would be fun to play around with. They gave me the PSP to do someting during chemo treatments. I go back to Barnes-Jewish next Wed. and they have a unsecured network so I will try it there to see what happens.

Yes. With a fanless video card that has DVI- or HDMI-out, you'll be able to make DVDs look and play as good it gets, plus you'll be ready to go to Blue Ray by putting in a BR optical drive whenever you get around to it (if you want to).

I set up an home theatre PC last year, and suddenly our dvd player never got used again. Eventually we got rid of it, and have never looked back. And using VLC with a mouse (or rumble pad!!!) is a trillion googol times better than stumbling around with a DVD remote and laggy firmware.

Found a good sound card which we coupled with a receiver to give us high definition sound. Love it.

gayb:Open_Mouth_Inert_Foot: or do ya think i should just go for the media center pc instead?

Yes. With a fanless video card that has DVI- or HDMI-out, you'll be able to make DVDs look and play as good it gets, plus you'll be ready to go to Blue Ray by putting in a BR optical drive whenever you get around to it (if you want to).

I set up an home theatre PC last year, and suddenly our dvd player never got used again. Eventually we got rid of it, and have never looked back. And using VLC with a mouse (or rumble pad!!!) is a trillion googol times better than stumbling around with a DVD remote and laggy firmware.

Found a good sound card which we coupled with a receiver to give us high definition sound. Love it.

The Antec Sonata is great, very quiet although to make it truly silent its fan and power supply would need to be replaced (you can buy scratch-and-dent cases without power supplies really cheap from Antec's online store).

FuturePastNow:gayb: By the way, can anyone actually recommend a good, especially quiet pc box? Regular ATX form factor, nothing small or shaped funny.

The Antec Sonata is great, very quiet although to make it truly silent its fan and power supply would need to be replaced (you can buy scratch-and-dent cases without power supplies really cheap from Antec's online store).

FuturePastNow:The Antec Sonata is great, very quiet although to make it truly silent its fan and power supply would need to be replaced (you can buy scratch-and-dent cases without power supplies really cheap from Antec's online store).

I'm having a bit of a nuisance with some Java programming. There are some websites I'd like to be able to connect to to gather statistics and data with a program, but unfortunately they read my program as something like an email-crawler, or other bad program. I'm assuming its because I'm not sending any browser-specific headers along with my connection. Would anyone happen to know how to send those headers?

I'm connecting by using an URL object in an URLConnection object that is read by an InputStreamReader which is utilized by a BufferedReader, but I think the only pertinent part is the URLConnection. Any ideas or advice given would be greatly appreciated, as this is a hole I've been stuck in for awhile.

tehhunter:I'm having a bit of a nuisance with some Java programming. There are some websites I'd like to be able to connect to to gather statistics and data with a program, but unfortunately they read my program as something like an email-crawler, or other bad program. I'm assuming its because I'm not sending any browser-specific headers along with my connection. Would anyone happen to know how to send those headers?

I'm connecting by using an URL object in an URLConnection object that is read by an InputStreamReader which is utilized by a BufferedReader, but I think the only pertinent part is the URLConnection. Any ideas or advice given would be greatly appreciated, as this is a hole I've been stuck in for awhile. Thanks

You want to use Jakarta HttpClient (new window) instead as the UrlConnection doesn't seem to implement that functionality. Here's (new window) a link to a tutorial on working with Java URL Classes.

So I've been looking at buying a new digital camera. So far I like the look of Canon's PowerShot A650. (I definitely want a camera that runs off AA batteries)

This Canon will take either an SD or MMC card. What kind of trade offs am I looking at choosing one over the other? Which is faster?

I ask because one of my biggest complaints about the Kodak camera I have now is that I can't take multiple pictures very quickly. I'm assuming one of the things that affects that is how fast the flash media is. (My biggest complaint is the Kodak sucks batteries dry very, very quickly)

Looking around at NewEgg I noticed that one of the SD cards mentioned it doesn't require any power - do SD and/or MMC cards normally require power?

I'm actually not too bad at system repair, but this issue has me stumped. I mean really stumped. I can't use DVI mode on my computer anymore. Just VGA. How annoying.

This means that I have to do weird things like unplug then replug in my monitor when my system restarts or all I see is total blackness, and the fact that I can no longer run a second output (a projector) from the computer, and web pages scroll VERY VERY slowly. Irritating.

Is it the monitor? The video card? Windows XP pro? I have no idea.

I have these things: another HD Spectre monitor. Another video card. A brand new driver from ATI which, when installed, causes complete blackout of monitor while system apparently starts fine (in darkness). I uninstall it, and the computer starts (in darkness, until I unplug it and plug it in again), but then identifies TWO new pieces of hardware and asks if I want to install drivers, which I cancel out of for reasons above.

I don't have: a copy of Win XP Pro on disk - just a directory on the computer that supposedly allows me to reinstall windows from scratch. I can't figure out how to use the damn thing. It's a legal copy.

I just want to work in DVI mode again, and don't know how to fix the problem. Any suggestions? Reinstall system? How? Driver problems? How can I tell the problem? This is damn frustrating.

tehhunterI'm assuming its because I'm not sending any browser-specific headers along with my connection. Would anyone happen to know how to send those headers?

I'm not quite sure whether it was SUN's API or the Jakarta HttpClient, but one or both of them will send a default User-Agent in the header identifying the request as being made by a Java program - which some websites might consider to be a bot, blocking the requests automatically.

I am going to be rebuilding Honestjuans.com in Dreamweaver- I built it initially about 3 years ago with the help of a guide and then finally after 6 months live I hired someone to build it for me. I ended up keeping the domain name but stopped getting it hosted because of money problems, but plan to re-open with a better layout within the next year.

Long story shorter though- the guide said that XML was the "wave of the future" and that all that we build would be XML soon. Is this the case or is there another language to be used now? PHP was getting popular for forum building when I finalized my site but I'm not sure if it's ever used for a regular site anymore. I know a lot of folks are designing sites mostly with Flash but I can't afford a copy and couldn't figure out how to get Swift (a flash copy) to work.

CLIFF NOTES:Say, has anyone here experience with virtual private server hosting plans?I'm a bit confused why entry level VPS plans seem to be cheaper than "normal hosting" plans with limit databases and an option for a private or even a shared Tomcat - after all, if I have a vserver, I should be able to install all the databases or Tomcats I want.

Is that confusion just due to me as a geek valuing the flexibility/independence of a VPS plan higher (e.g. cherry-picking the software versions I want to run) than the "convenience" of not bothering with server administration and living within some pre-configured software package?

Since that webapp isn't really used (okay, I didn't pimp it that much) and my pre-paid Tomcat plan is running out, I'm thinking about terminating it entirely.But then again, it looks like for about $2 more I can get a vserver with a lot more bang for those two bucks (e.g. 10GB storage, 300GB traffic, own IP address, maybe even more RAM and - if I understand vserver hosting correctly - all the Tomcats, databases and whatnot I want to install).That's somewhat tempting.

It would be even more tempting if I were able to get a vserver in a different country than Germany as I might then add some features into that webapp that might get people to use it more.(In Germany, the ambulance chasers have found the internet and are busy sending out very costly blackmail C&D letters to German websites for various ridiculous reasons)

The PHP and MySQL combination is still fine for most sites. I am sure someone has a really strong opinion of Ruby on Rails, too. XML is an excellent format for text/info/whatever but ultimately you'd most likely be using server side scripting language (PERL, PHP, .net) to integrate it with your site unless you go for one of those offbeat languages that sound like an Irish separatist group. Keep it simple.

If you are looking to add a forum, try googling phpBBB. It's decent, easy to use and isn't the most unsecure thing out there (but stay on top of security updates at your peril!)

Flash still sucks for anything not entertainment related and is still a great way to stop people from visiting your site unless you have video and then it's great.

If you are designing a simple site with some pages with info and pics and all, you want a book called CSS: The Missing Manual (new window). Spend a week or so on it, dick around with the examples and fly little bird, fly!

TehNacho:Long story shorter though- the guide said that XML was the "wave of the future" and that all that we build would be XML soon. Is this the case or is there another language to be used now? PHP was getting popular for forum building when I finalized my site but I'm not sure if it's ever used for a regular site anymore. I know a lot of folks are designing sites mostly with Flash but I can't afford a copy and couldn't figure out how to get Swift (a flash copy) to work.

Of course I'm working with Dreamweaver 2004...

PHP is still extremely popular. Flash only sites are almost always a Bad Idea ™